Spike Lee on Mizzou campus to focus on football team boycott

Spike Lee on Mizzou campus to focus on football team boycott

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Movie director Spike Lee visits the University of Missouri campus to work on an ESPN documentary about the football team’s threatened boycott last fall. The Columbia Daily Tribune (bit.ly/1TFS1pS) reports Lee was in town on Saturday night to attend a screening of the student-made documentary “Concerned Student 1950 at the True/False […]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Movie director Spike Lee visits the University of Missouri campus to work on an ESPN documentary about the football team’s threatened boycott last fall.

The Columbia Daily Tribune (bit.ly/1TFS1pS) reports Lee was in town on Saturday night to attend a screening of the student-made documentary “Concerned Student 1950 at the True/False Film Festival.

Lee’s film titled “2 Fists Up” is planned for digital release May 31. ESPN says the film examines how the Black Lives Matter Movement sparked activism at the University of Missouri and the rest of the U.S.

Lee also was on campus Monday to interview subjects for the film and record footage of the Concerned Student 1950 group as it protested at multiple spots on campus.